top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-09-29

Universal SSL

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-universal-ssl/

12 years ago

The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times

http://nautil.us/blog/the-sound-so-loud-that-it-circled-the-earth-four-times

12 years ago

How Hong Kong Protesters Are Connecting, Without Cell or Wi-Fi Networks

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/09/29/352476454/how-hong-kong-protesters-are-connecting-without-cell-or-wi-fi-networks

12 years ago

Postgres full text search is good enough

http://blog.lostpropertyhq.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enough/#1

12 years ago

Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2014/09/adobe-joins-chromebook-party-starting.html

12 years ago

Google Classroom

https://www.google.com/edu/classroom/

12 years ago

OS X Bash Update 1.0

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1769

12 years ago

Learning Online

http://christinacacioppo.com/blog/learning-online

12 years ago

Trends in the Silk Road 2.0

http://lau.im/articles/analyzing-silk-road-2-0-part-1/

12 years ago

With New Ad Platform, Facebook Opens Gates to Its Vault of User Data

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/business/with-new-ad-platform-facebook-opens-the-gates-to-its-vault-of-consumer-data.html

12 years ago

T – a command-line power tool for Twitter

http://sferik.github.io/t/

12 years ago

Interview with Terence Tao

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rinL25rC8LnMTzZcGjg1axT-0r-oiCnoKKH1DLQlmVA/edit

12 years ago

The SQLite Database File Format

https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat2.html

12 years ago

Using Machine Learning and Node.js to detect the gender of Instagram Users

http://totems.co/?p=11084

12 years ago

A Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms in Relational Database Theory (1982)

http://www.bkent.net/Doc/simple5.htm

12 years ago

Can We Trust Uber?

https://medium.com/@petersimsie/can-we-trust-uber-c0e793deda36

12 years ago

Nvidia Introduces CuDNN, a CUDA-based Library for Deep Neural Networks

http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/09/cudnn

12 years ago

Common Parts Library

http://octopart.com/common-parts-library?a=1

12 years ago

Clojure Cup 2014 Apps

https://clojurecup.com/#/apps

12 years ago

Tor executive director hints at Firefox integration

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/tor-mozilla-firefox/

12 years ago

Winning A/B results were not translating into improved user acquisition

http://blog.sumall.com/journal/optimizely-got-me-fired.html

12 years ago

ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2014/09/paper-summary-zookeeper-wait-free.html

12 years ago

Suicide, a Crime of Loneliness

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/suicide-crime-loneliness

12 years ago

The Extraordinary California Drought of 2013-2014

http://www.weatherwest.com/archives/1797

12 years ago

Parody copyright laws set to come into effect in the UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29408121

12 years ago

A world without mosquitoes (2010)

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html

12 years ago

Shellshocking OpenVPN servers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8385332

12 years ago

Show HN: Moo.do – Simple, Powerful Organizational Tool

http://moo.do/?hn

12 years ago

Purely Functional 3D in Typed Racket [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3xdv4UP9-U&index=6&list=PLXr4KViVC0qI9t3lizitiFJ1cFIeN2Gdh

12 years ago

Microsoft Prediction Lab

https://www.prediction.microsoft.com/

12 years ago

Template Metaprogramming with Modern C++: templates in depth

http://blog.biicode.com/template-metaprogramming-cpp-ii/

12 years ago

Future Smartphones Won’t Need Cell Towers to Connect

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530996/future-smartphones-wont-need-cell-towers-to-connect/

12 years ago

Why Loggly Chose AWS Route 53 Over Elastic Load Balancing

https://www.loggly.com/blog/why-aws-route-53-over-elastic-load-balancing/

12 years ago

Shellshock in the Wild

http://www.fireeye.com/blog/uncategorized/2014/09/shellshock-in-the-wild.html

12 years ago

Circle opens doors to global audience

https://www.circle.com/en/2014/09/29/circle-opens-doors-global-audience

12 years ago

The manager and the moron (1967)

http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/Organization/The_manager_and_the_moron?cid=other-eml-cls-mip-mck-oth-1409

12 years ago

Planet Emacsen

http://planet.emacsen.org/

12 years ago

Eskimo – Node Boilerplate Framework for Rapid MVPs

http://niftylettuce.com/posts/eskimo-rapid-mvp-node-boilerplate/

12 years ago

SWI-Prolog for the semantic web

http://www.swi-prolog.org/web/index.html

12 years ago

iOS8 MAC Address Randomization Update

http://blog.airtightnetworks.com/ios8-mac-randomgate/

12 years ago

Apple: Dark Value and Degrees of Monopoly in Global Commodity Chains [pdf]

http://www.jwsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Clelland_vol20_no1.pdf

12 years ago

Tinholes – performant, strongly typed lenses in Clojure

http://blog.podsnap.com/tinhole.html

12 years ago

Butterfly Labs mined Bitcoins on customers’ boxes before shipping

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/feds-butterfly-labs-mined-bitcoins-on-customers-boxes-before-shipping/

12 years ago

Apple boycotts German newspaper after Bentgate Video – open letter to Tim Cook

http://www.computerbild.de/artikel/cb-News-Handy-Apple-boycotts-COMPUTER-BILD-An-open-letter-to-Tim-Cook-10953399.html

12 years ago

Datacoup – Unlock the Value of Your Personal Data

http://datacoup.com

12 years ago

Benchmarking Tableau's S-1: How Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

http://tomtunguz.com/tableau-s-1/

12 years ago

Making Hybrid Images

http://jeremykun.com/2014/09/29/hybrid-images/

12 years ago

What is gained and lost with 63-bit integers?

https://blogs.janestreet.com/what-is-gained-and-lost-with-63-bit-integers/

12 years ago

Our Invisible Rich

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/opinion/paul-krugman-our-invisible-rich.html

12 years ago

Why Microsoft's engineering changes will be the real Windows Threshold story

http://www.zdnet.com/why-microsofts-engineering-changes-will-be-the-real-windows-threshold-story-7000034147/

12 years ago

Show HN: Valcu – DIY Startup Incorporation, Setup and Corporate Management

https://valcu.co?referrer=hn

12 years ago

Protect yourself from the hidden dangers of `curl – sh`

http://www.djm.org.uk/protect-yourself-from-non-obvious-dangers-curl-url-pipe-sh/

12 years ago

Ansible Quick Start guide

http://ryaneschinger.com/blog/ansible-quick-start/

12 years ago

Apple is not addressing the Bash bug

https://plus.google.com/+supercurioFran%C3%A7oisSimond/posts/BpesETubZzP

12 years ago